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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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More Norwegian spy stuff, continuing from:
28th of October. Looks like it was a commercial airplane. https://www.nrk.no/rogaland/drone-over-karsto-var-truleg-sas-fly-1.16156364
In potentially more serious news, a researcher at the University of Tromsø has been arrested, suspected of being a spy. Allegedly he's Russian, while according to his papers he's Brazilian. Parallells to the show The Americans (which is great) have been made. He was working with stuff related to security and warfare. The GreyZone mentioned in the article is a research group, not the publication that has been talked about in here before. https://www.nrk.no/norge/pst-sikter-spionmistenkt-i-tromso-for-ulovlig-etterretning-1.16156368
13th of October; the military observes a drone around an important gas plant, the drone is way too big to be a hobby drone. Police is investigating, loads of them on the scene. Dramatic. https://www.nrk.no/norge/forsvaret-meldte-fra-om-mulig-droneobservasjon-ved-gassanlegg-1.16138874
28th of October. Looks like it was a commercial airplane. https://www.nrk.no/rogaland/drone-over-karsto-var-truleg-sas-fly-1.16156364
In potentially more serious news, a researcher at the University of Tromsø has been arrested, suspected of being a spy. Allegedly he's Russian, while according to his papers he's Brazilian. Parallells to the show The Americans (which is great) have been made. He was working with stuff related to security and warfare. The GreyZone mentioned in the article is a research group, not the publication that has been talked about in here before. https://www.nrk.no/norge/pst-sikter-spionmistenkt-i-tromso-for-ulovlig-etterretning-1.16156368
Pretty juicy! Initially I think they just wanted to deport him, will be interesting to see if this changes anything.
Are they just awarding military rangs like candy or illegals have higher stature among the other officers ?
That's the next low-grade Netflix Norwegian language spy thriller sorted then.
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It was just a matter of time innit
I feel like the Russians are waiting for the UKR to run out of ammunition. UKR forces need to move soon, or the winter will make it harder for them—both weather-wise and politically.
I don't know the exact numbers. This former NATO official though has his say on it...
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Expect the calls for negotiations and peace to get louder and louder each day from some of our European clowns. No way they are paying for anything, they just wish for all of it to end no matter how.
Yes but the US economy isn’t going to suffer as much as Europe’s, Germany’s entire industrial base is built on the gas they bring from Russia, even if they can get enough for heating homes, these higher prices have already shut down entire industries.
Meanwhile in the US, natural gas is a byproduct of fracking and is being flared all over the country because the infrastructure to capture it is lagging.
I’m sure having the global reserve currency is helping too, we export our inflation.
Of course each country should do what they can.
Funny thing is that the upcoming season of Jack Ryan will make those Russian hardliners/ultranationalists look far more competent than they actually are in real life.
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Admiral Makarov and Admiral Essen are the only surface ships currently deployed in the Black Sea capable of lauching cruise missiles, if they have been able to take out one of the ships it will indeed be a big blow to Russias ability to attack Ukraine from the south with missiles.
The Kremlin propaganda shows should be fun tonight. They are basically the new Arse Fam TV
If Russia is admitting minor damage this early, most of the Black Sea fleet has probably been sunk.
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Looks like the attack this morning was done by unmanned surface vessels.
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Sad thing is, russia will posture again by retaliating against civilians
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I thought this was a good interview. Nothing really quite new but key points:
- Milov thinks that Iran didn't willingly got involved but was pressured by Putin because Putin was helping Iran in several ways and threatened to cut that help.
- Russian security services tightly under Putin's control so a coup is unlikely and you'd be better off betting on the Russian public to rise up rather than the "elites".
- Sanctions are extremely hurtful to Russian complex industries but patience is needed.
- Nordstream damage was message to the West that their infrastructure can be hurt.
- Nuclear threats to be taken seriously but not exaggerate it because Putin knows it'd be the end of him and India/China/other countries would distance themselves even more from Russia.
- Forcing Ukraine to negotiate for peace would be celebrated with champagne in the Kremlin as they can regroup and strike again later.
They already have by renouncing the grain export agreement.
For those negotiation fanatics with Putin:
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If you're posting a Russian-language source, at least provide a translation.
I mean Twitter has a very convenient translate option when you click on the Tweet, or is it only me?
If it’s not English, please post a translation. Same as in the transfer tweet thread.
Every time I open this thread I’m secretly praying for a Soloyvov meltdown video
The stranger his segments the worse it seems to be going for the Russians. Will be interesting to see his reaction when they lose.
The last one was absolute gold…..it’ll be hard to top, especially as it was full of agonised realisation of how shit they are
Worth posting this here too:
I bet the Tory Party are still happy to accept Kremlin linked donations.
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I bet the Tory Party are still happy to accept Kremlin linked donations.